Jerry McNerney

Managing nuclear waste is an engineering and a political problem.

Most of my engineering and manufacturing jobs are in the United States and I would like to keep it that way. But without Ex-Im, you would have to start asking the question about where they should be.

Thousands of veterans, survivors of sexual assault have fought for years to get the benefits that are owed them, but they didn't give up, so we are not going to give up in our fight to reform this process.

With the Ruth Moore Act, we can change the VA's policy so veterans who survive sexual assault get the benefits they earned and deserved.

I appreciate your bipartisan work in getting this draft ready.

I am really proud to have introduced H.R. 1313, the Service to Disabled Veterans Owned Small Business Relief Act, which allows spouses to retain the status for three years.

I strongly support all of these pieces of legislation.

What my bill does is it extends that disability rating for three years which gives the spouse enough time to establish the business without the rating.

My advice to them is embrace carbon sequestration. Embrace it, because coal is going to be reduced whether we like it or not.

The EPA's proposal, in my opinion, is reasonable. It includes energy efficiency, it includes looking for new, more efficient sources of energy.

Climate change is here. I mean it is happening. It is not a matter of speculation. We need to take action; we need to take it now.

If the United States takes the lead, then we are going to be able to develop the technology, we are going to be able to export jobs.

The longer we wait to take action on climate change, the more expensive it is going to be, the more damaging the effects of climate change are going to be.

Coal is still our number one energy producer. Produces about 38 percent of our power.

We have the specter of climate change sitting there in front of us.

The American grid is one of the great engineering achievements of the 20th century.

Renewable energies... is growing rapidly, but it is only 13 percent of our capacity.

U.S. gas prices are set internationally based on those spot markets.

Oil markets are changing rapidly. We have reduced oil and gasoline prices, increased domestic oil production.

I see a manufacturing renaissance, an opportunity for a manufacturing renaissance in this country.

I mean, encouraging more production, encouraging more consumption, it is going to create more greenhouse gas...

For opening up exports I see two big benefits. One is geopolitical. We can help Ukraine and the Baltic countries...

I think most of the players are willing to go down that path.

In my State we have seen the steepest increase in gasoline prices in history.

All of that, Ms. Velaazquez. I read the report on the subway down here and the Corps of Engineers says all of that very empathically.